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 8-October-2004-Lifes-longing-for-itself-lectures-b
 y-Doyne-Farmer
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SUMMARY:Life's longing for itself, lectures by Doy
 ne Farmer
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20041026T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20041028T203000
LOCATION:Place: Lecturehall A and C, Building A, R
 oeterseiland 15
DESCRIPTION:Professor Doyne Farmer of the Santa Fe
  Institute for Nonlinear Studies presents a minise
 ries of lectures (on 26, 27, and 28 October) title
 d: "Life's longing for itself: On propagation, pre
 diction, purpose and progress"    The physicist (a
 t present mostly economist) Doyne Farmer is one of
  the pioneers of chaos theory. He was involved in 
 developing some fundamental aspects of the theory,
  but also in developing a number of interesting ap
 plications. He is well-known as one of the founder
 s of the succesful Prediction Company, a firm whos
 e business is automatic trading of financial instr
 uments based on time series based directional fore
 casting methods. An inspiring lecturer on the mult
 idisciplinary adventures on the intersection of be
 tween mathematics, natural science, economics and 
 the social sciences.   The series is a joint initi
 ative of the:   Institute for Theoretical Physics 
 (FNWI)  Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (I
 IS)   and the Department of Quantitative Economics
  (FEE)    For more information, see http://www.sci
 ence.uva.nl/research/itf/index.php. A poster is av
 ailable at http://www.science.uva.nl/research/itf/
 doyneposter.doc
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n      <p>\n        
 Professor Doyne Farmer of the Santa Fe Institute f
 or Nonlinear\n        Studies presents a miniserie
 s of lectures (on 26, 27, and 28\n        October)
  titled: &quot;Life's longing for itself: On\n    
     propagation, prediction, purpose and progress&
 quot;\n      </p>\n      <p>\n        The physicis
 t (at present mostly economist) Doyne Farmer is\n 
        one of the pioneers of chaos theory. He was
  involved in\n        developing some fundamental 
 aspects of the theory, but also in\n        develo
 ping a number of interesting applications. He is\n
         well-known as one of the founders of the s
 uccesful Prediction\n        Company, a firm whose
  business is automatic trading of\n        financi
 al instruments based on time series based directio
 nal\n        forecasting methods. An inspiring lec
 turer on the\n        multidisciplinary adventures
  on the intersection of between\n        mathemati
 cs, natural science, economics and the social\n   
      sciences.\n      </p>\n      <p>The series is
  a joint initiative of the: <br />\n        Instit
 ute for Theoretical Physics (FNWI)<br />\n        
 Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) <br 
 />\n        and the Department of Quantitative Eco
 nomics (FEE)\n      </p>\n    \n      <p>\n       
  For more information, see\n        <a target="_bl
 ank" href="http://www.science.uva.nl/research/itf/
 index.php">http://www.science.uva.nl/research/itf/
 index.php</a>.\n        A poster is available at \
 n        <a target="_blank" href="http://www.scien
 ce.uva.nl/research/itf/doyneposter.doc">http://www
 .science.uva.nl/research/itf/doyneposter.doc</a>\n
       </p>\n    
URL:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2004/newsitem/779/26-2
 8-October-2004-Lifes-longing-for-itself-lectures-b
 y-Doyne-Farmer
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